In this combination photo, President Donald Trump appears in the White House in Washington on March 13, 2017, left, and comedian Kathy Griffin appears at the Clive Davis and The Recording Academy Pre-Grammy Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Feb. 11, 2017. Griffin and her attorney have scheduled a news conference for Friday, June 2, 2017, to discuss the fallout from the comedian posing with a likeness of Trump’s severed head. The images prompted CNN to fire Griffin from her decade-long gig hosting a New Year's Eve special she had co-hosted with Anderson Cooper. Griffin apologized within hours of the images appearing online on Tuesday. They were met with swift and widespread condemnation. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, left, and Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)

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A tearful Kathy Griffin declared her career is over and that she still plans to poke fun at Donald Trump. The comedian stood by her apology and repeated it several times, but said "I'm not laying down for this guy."

Griffin told reporters at the press conference that she was bullied by the Trump family. "There's a bunch of old white guys trying to silence me, but that's wrong."

The photo was met with widespread condemnation shortly after it was posted.

The comedian issued an apology Tuesday night saying, "I'm a comic. I cross the line. I move the line, and then I cross it. I went way too far.”

But that wasn't enough for CNN, which cut ties with Griffin despite her decade-long gig hosting a New Year's Eve special with Anderson Cooper.

The incident also led Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to cancel an event he had scheduled with Griffin to promote his new book.

"I believe what Kathy Griffin did was inappropriate and not something that should be anywhere in our national discourse," Franken said in a statement. "I consider her a friend and I'm glad she realized she crossed the line and apologized."

President Donald Trump called the photo "sick" and said Griffin should be ashamed of her actions.